Engineering the thermopower of C60 molecular junctions

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2141-2145

  Evangeli, Charalambos ^a   Gillemot, Katalin ^b   Leary, Edmund ^a,c   González, M Teresa ^c   Rubio Bollinger, Gabino ^a,d   Lambert, Colin J ^b   Agraït, Nicolás ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

density functional theory; molecular conductance; Molecular thermopower; single molecule

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR THERMOPOWER; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIMERS; MOLECULES;

THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 84877271652     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl400579g     Document Type: Article

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